Guess Japanese have a hard to accept the fact that the Western nations that they worshiped failed miserably in containing the pandemic. And the Western media is desperate to explain why the West failed so badly that it would entertain anything.
Scientists Investigate Whether Exposure to Earlier Coronavirus Helped Asia Fight Covid-19. Some researchers looking at theory to explain why East Asia has experienced fewer cases, deaths than U.S. and Europe
TOKYO—An enduring mystery of the Covid-19 pandemic is why East Asian countries across the board have
and deaths than the U.S. and Europe.
Some doctors and scientists are beginning to take a closer look at theories that some people in East Asia and Southeast Asia have had different exposure to previous coronaviruses resembling the SARS-CoV-2 virus sweeping the globe. Such exposure could have protected them from getting sick from Covid-19 or lessened the severity of the disease.
Others doubt that the immune systems of people in the region differ from people in the rest of the world in any systematic way. They suspect cultural factors and, in some countries, government policies such as
are playing the main role.
Whatever the case, doctors agree that some explanation is needed for why Japan, South Korea, China, Vietnam, Taiwan, Malaysia and Singapore all have experienced at most a few thousand new SARS-CoV-2 infections a day, even during the current surge. That compares with tens of thousands of daily cases in many European nations and
on many days in the U.S.
Yasuhiro Suzuki has pondered the question as the highest-ranking doctor in the Japanese Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare’s medical corps until his retirement in August.
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